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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 1
Posting Date: 09/30/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932
The General Assembly meets this morning to continue its general
debate.
The President of the Assembly, JOSEPH N. GARBA (Nigeria), called
the meeting to order at 10:04 a.m.
He first drew the Assembly's attention to document
A/44/535/Add.1, in which the Secretary-General informed the
President of the Assembly that El Salvador had made the
necessary payments to reduce its arrears below the amount
specified in Article 19 of the Charter.
GIANNI DE MICHELIS, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Italy, said
that in the next few years the world community would be required
to choose between two policies, "integration" or
"disintegration". Choice of the former would mean a policy of
co-operation, while the latter would tend to aggravate conflicts
and tensions. The future depended upon the ability, through
integration, to reconstruct "one world".
He said that with the increasing renunciation of the use of force
in international relations, the search for areas of
complementarity and convergence was intensifying. The world was
emerging from a period of appallingly destructive and tragically
pointless wars. Wars could no longer be won, as had been seen
in the conflict between Iran and Iraq. On the other hand, the
increasing uselessness of military strength for purposes of
prestige and domination had helped to start a promising trend
towards co-operation among people. That would determine the
success of the important negotiations on disarmament, ranging
from talks between the major Powers on the reduction of nuclear
weapons to multilateral discussions on the total elimination of
chemical weapons.
"Integration is achieved through the exercise of freedom,
democracy and pluralism -- in essence, the rights first codified
at the interanational level by the United Nations", he
continued. Freedom, complementarity and solidarity must be the
guiding principles of a new coexistence. Since the Conference on
Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in Vienna, it was
harder to evade the obligation to respect fundamental freedoms
by invoking national sovereignty, for verification measures were
being perfected, just as they were in weapons control. However,
the logic of integration was negated when countries imported
technology, while ignoring the fact that economic progress and
democracy was a two-sided coin. And then there were cases where,
on the pretext of alleged racial differences, unnatural
segregation measures were imposed, and human beings were denied
full recognition of their dignity, even though some changes in
the right direction could be discerned in South Africa. In the
Arab-Israeli conflict, each of the contending parties might be
tempted to resolve the issue by disregarding the other side and
its rights.
(END OF TAKE 1)
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UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 1
Posting Date: 10/09/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
UNITEX Network, USA ISSN: 1043-7932
The General Assembly meets this morning to continue its general
debate.
JOSEPH N. GARBA (Nigeria), President of the General Assembly,
called the meeting to order at 10:05 a.m.
The first speaker, DANIELLE DE. ST. JORRE, Minister for Planning
and Foreign Affairs of the Seychelles, said the United Nations
had remained a unique forum where solutions for world peace had
been found. She called for a positive international strategy
for the adoption of concrete resolutions to solve persistent
problems such as the degradation of the environment, disarmament
and development.
In the Indian Ocean, she went on to say, the new climate of
detente and peace must be reinforced. She hoped that in that
spirit, military arsenals, including nuclear weapons, would soon
be dismantled. She called for the early convening of the
conference on the Indian Ocean as a zone of peace. All parties
must contribute genuinely to the realization of that objective
and to real disarmament in that region, she added.
She was also worried about global pollution of the air and water,
the general destruction of the ecosystem and the dumping of
toxic wastes. Such world problems could be solved only at an
international level, she stated. Today, she said, man possessed
the capacity and knowledge to reverse the disasters and errors
of the past; science and technology could be used for the
preservation of the environment.
The problem of rising sea levels, brought about by global
climatic changes, was a particular threat to the Seychelles. Two
thirds of the archipelago would be submerged if the sea level
continued to rise at the present pace. She supported the
Montreal Protocol for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the
measures being taken to eliminate toxic substances.
The Seychelles, she stated, had donated, "as a gift to humanity",
the island of Aldabra that was now a natural conservation site.
She said further that her Government supported the proposal to
levy an international tax on pollution. The money so raised
could be used to help damaged ecological systems and to assist
all countries in preserving their environment.
Continuing, she said there was yet another urgent international
problem -- toxic waste, that was dumped clandestinely on the
high seas. Some of it had already been dumped in the
south-western part of the Indian Ocean and was threatening the
shores of her country.
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